Pro skateboarder turned Rallycross driver Bucky Lasek received his 20th X Games medal earlier this month after participating in an official X Games Rallycross race at the Circuit of Americas in Austin Texas. With the help of his Subaru WRX STI, Lasek came in second in the event, earning a silver medal, and proving his talents have no limits.
The 2015 Subaru WRX STI is one of the automaker's most-anticipated new cars coming out for the 2015 model year, and if there wasn't already enough buzz about its arrival, racecar driver Mark Higgins has just given the world fresh news about the car to boast about. In a recent timed run on the Isle of Man TT Course, Higgins was able to break his lap record of 116.470 MPH and time of 19:26, which was just set a week prior.
Get ready to run, Springfield, because the Color Foam 5K is coming to town on Saturday, June 28, and we're encouraging everyone to come out and participate in this fun event! Nothing like your typical 5K, the Color Foam run is an untimed race that promotes wellness, where runners make their way through colored foam and get doused in colored water cannons as they sprint ahead toward the finish line.
Subaru has been steadily working on their future plans, and as of recently, they have revealed a few of their upcoming endeavors to the public. In line with the company's goals to increase their North American sales, a new modular platform will arrive in 2016, which will support their newly implemented efforts to utilize more fuel-efficient, direct-injection engines.
The 2015 Subaru WRX and WRX STI recently received their very first evaluations from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and we're pleased to announce that each car earned Top Safety Pick awards due to their incredible safety features! The pair join four other Subaru models that have received awards from IIHS, making Subaru the brand with the most Top Safety Picks for 2014.
Support Great Circle and the memory of Ken Coleman by participating the 3rd Annual Ken Coleman Memorial 5K, which is scheduled to be held on Saturday, June 14, at Great Circle's Springfield campus. Coleman made it his life's work to help children who suffered from abuse, and Great Circle, an organization which provides treatment for children and families with a history of abuse, would like to pay tribute to his efforts.
There are many ways you can unload a car from a truck without doing any damage, but none of those ideas were considered by a few men in Russia who recently attempted the feat, only to have it end very badly. Before you start to get concerned, let me start by saying that no one was harmed during the incident, however, the same can't be said about the car.
Reliable Subaru would like to thank everyone who attended the KOZL Man Show Expo at the Springfield Expo Center last month. We were excited to be a part of this fun event and we had a great time meeting everyone who came by the Reliable Subaru booth! More than 100 vendors were onsite during the two-day expo, dedicated to all things men love, and there was an incredible turnout this year.
Reliable Subaru has been a longtime supporter of C.A.R.E. Animal Rescue, and thanks to the efforts of the community, we recently had the chance to show them how much we appreciate their work. As a part of our Subaru Share the Love event, we allowed our customers to choose five national charities for us to contribute to, and this year, Subaru let us choose a sixth local charity to donate to, which our customers then got the chance to vote for.
